Happy Anniversary LBJ

Today is a landmark day in American history and it nearly slipped by me. Many events and dates to this. In January of 1993 I forgot my dad's January birthday. This should have been an impossibility since his was the day before mine. Sadly, it was his last.

Toward evening I was informed that today is the fiftieth anniversary of Lyndon Baines Johnson's proclamation of a 'War on Poverty' in this country. It was still a time when our people were living through JFK and Johnson and the democrats could get anything they wanted. What the heck. They still do.

Anyway, I was reminded, while listening to the news(obviously not mainstream) that in 1964 13.2 of our population were on the poverty roles. Due to a fifty year program it has been reduced to 14.1%.
Wait a moment. That's not a reduction. That's in increase. With a 1964 population of 180 million God-fearing, taxpaying citizens we had 22 million underpaid, under housed, ill-fed Americans. Thank the government for its good work because now we have a population of 320 million and only 44 million folks are--------Oops! There's another problem.

If you took the cost of every war and conflict in which this country has participated it would not come close to the cost of this Democrat instituted plan. Hang onto your wallets because it is the staggering sum of $22 trillion dollars. And you thought our government didn't care.

The best thing I can say about this is that it's a good deal the taxpayers aren't funding the bill instead of the government. Why, that kind of money could cost senators and representatives their political seats.

And to LBJ and the rest of the grifters I implore you to stick it where the sun don't shine. If it wasn't for Democrats we might have some cash in our billfolds.

On another note which goes along with government ineptness. My wife went to the US Post Office in Dublin, Ohio to snag one of those yellow stop mail postcards before we left for the lake. There weren't any in sight so the Queen asked the lady clerk where should could get a couple. And the answer came back, "Hey! These things cost money. We can't pass them out like they're free"! Dumb me. I thought they worked for us. True story.